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Seven Youth Apostles brothers made commitments at a Mass celebrated by Bishop Michael F. Burbidge June 12 at St. Agnes Church in Arlington.
Registration for the June 26 diocesan event “Arise,” a Mass and festival in thanksgiving for the lifting of COVID-19 restrictions, closed today as sign-ups reached capacity limits, only a few days after it was announced on social media and promoted in an email from the Arlington diocese.
In a unanimous decision June 17, the Supreme Court said that a Catholic social service agency should not have been excluded from Philadelphia's foster care program because it did not accept same-sex couples as foster parents.
The Supreme Court’s announcement that it will consider an abortion case from Mississippi next fall touched off a predictable outpouring of frenzied criticism from pro-choice sources worried lest their cherished “right” to abortion be in jeopardy. No small part of it was what might politely be called exaggeration or, not so politely, baloney.
WASHINGTON — The first day of the U.S. bishops' June 16-18 spring assembly, held virtually because of the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, began with discussion of how to proceed with a major topic the bishops will be taking up: the drafting of a formal statement on the "meaning of the Eucharist in the life of the church."
The U.S. bishops heard a presentation June 16 on a draft document that provides a pastoral framework meant to strengthen marriage and family ministry in parishes and dioceses.
The World War I movie “1917” ends much as it begins, with the protagonist, Lance Corporal Schofield, sitting in uniform under a tree. If you viewed only those two scenes, you might believe not much happens in the film — and what a mistake that would be.
The board of trustees of The Catholic University of America in Washington gathered for its June meeting in Alexandria — and though they were on the opposite side of the Potomac from the university’s 176-acre campus in Washington, they were still at home.
The Most Reverend Michael F. Burbidge, Bishop of Arlington, has announced the following clergy appointments and changes of residence:
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When God sleeps
On a trip to Tokyo years ago, my friends and I visited a Shinto shrine in the heart of the city. Our tour-guide explained the local custom: To pray in the temple, the locals believed that you had to clap twice to wake up the god who lived there. At the time, I laughed to myself and thought, “What good is a God who takes naps? Who wants a deity who’s asleep at the switch?”